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v R. A. PATTERSON. Attachment fopDi stributing Guano and Dropping CottonSeed.

No. 242,032. 'Potented May 24, I88].

ca 542 QM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

ROBERT A. PATTERSON, OF BELTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOWILLIAM S. TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

ATTACHMENT FOR DISTRIBUTING GUANO AND DROPPING COTTON-SEED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,032, dated May 24,1881,

Application filed April 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT A. PATTERSON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Belton, in the countyofAnderson and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in emu-Attachment for Distributing Guano andDropping Cotton-Seed; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

Figure 1 is a side-elevation view with the hopper broken away. Fig. 2 isa view of the same, showing the wheel, hopper, and shoe attached to theplow-beam. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the clamping device; and Fig. 4 isa detail view of the corrugated or notched slide.

This invention has relation to improvements in fertilizendistributersand cotton-seed droppers; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement of parts, as hereinafter shown, described, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the plow-beam, andB is the clamp attachment, composed of a spindle, B, having loop-bracesa secured thereto, and connected at their upper ends to a cross-piece,B. This clamp is also provided with a rod, to, passing through openingsof the cross-piece and spindle and through a coiled spring, a

B represents the driving-wheel journaled on the spindle, and providedwith pins a on its circumference to prevent slipping as the wheel movesover the ground. This wheel has a second row of pins, or, on its face, ashortdistance from its peripheral edge, for a purpose hereinafterdescribed.

Between the wheel and plow-handle is the hopper A, connected to the beamAby means of a spring-standard, A. This hopper has a swinging curvedshoe, F, provided with front and side wal1s,within which the hopperswings. It is attached to hooks 2 at the sides of the hopper by means ofa strap,,A secured to the under side of the shoe, its loose ends be- 0ing perforated to en gage the hooks on the hopper, whereby said shoe isadjustable to or from the hopper, as may be required. The bottom of thehopper is provided with a slot-ted slide,

0, to regulate the flow of fertilizer into the 5 5 shoe. To the rear endof this hopper is a slotted slide, 0, extending vertically down the wallthereof, and having corrugations c on its bottom edge, whereby the flowfrom the shoe can be regulated according to the quantity to bedistributed on the soil or in the furrow.

Secured to the bottom of the shoe is a rod,

D, the front end of which extends out across the path of the pins a onthe face of the driving-wheel, and by the rotation of which the side andend walls of the shoe cause a shaking of the hopper by means of thespring attached thereto and to the beam.

A rope or cord, E, attached to one of the plow-handles and passingthrough an eye on the front upper edge of the hopper and secured to therod 1), serves to remove said rod from the pins on the face of thedriving-wheeh'to throw the shoe out of gear therewith to save thecontents of the hopper from being distributed in turning the machine atthe end of a row or in removingit to or from the field. This plow-beamis provided with a furrow-opener in front of the open end of the shoe,the fertilizer from which is deposited in the furrow.

This device may be used to drop cotton-seed by removing the slide fromthe bottom of the hopper, so that the seed maypass directly into theshoe, the flow being regulated by the corrugated feed-slide.

I am aware that plows have heretofore been provided with hoppers andshakers for distributing fertilizers, and I do not claim such invention,broadly.

Having described my invention,what Iclaim, c and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-- 1. The combination, with the plow, of the clampingdevice B, having the spindle B, and the loop-braces a secured thereto,the crosspiece 13*, engaging the upper ends of said 9 5 braces, aspring, a the screw-rod a, passing through openings in the cross-piece,beam, spring, and spindle, and the wheel B having the pins (4 (l,j0ll1lllll(d on said spindle, as ing over the hopper within reach ofthe open [0 shown and described, and for the purpo es set ator, asspecified. forth. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 2. Thecombination, with the beam and its in presence ol'two witnesses.

wheel havin pins (1 of the hopper A, proy v vided with h aoks unilslides U G, the curved hobuup AUS PIN PA1 UJRSON shoe F, having thestrap A, adjustable on said Witnesses: books, the rod D, engaging" thepins 14 and A. M. DUFFIE, the rope E, attached to said rod and extend-R. W. TODD.

